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            <h1>Privacy Policy</h1>
                        
            <p style="font-size:11px; color:#11111;">Below you will find the updated Privacy Policy for this site effective October 7, 2010.</p>
                            
            We understand that booking online involves significant trust on your part. We value
            your trust, and make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality
            of the personal information you provide to us. Please read this policy to learn
            about our privacy practices. By visiting this website, you are accepting the practices
            described herein.
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            <ul>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv1">What information we collect from you</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv2">How we use your information</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv3">With whom we share your information</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv4">Your choices with respect to collection and use of your information</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv5">Cookies and other technologies</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv6">Display of tailored advertising/Your choices</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv7">How we protect your information</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv8">External links</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv9">Visiting our website from outside the United States</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv10">Changes to this Privacy Policy</a></li>
            <li>• <a href="#Priv11">How you can contact us</a></li>
            </ul>
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            <h2 id="Priv1">What information we collect from you</h2>
            <p>
            <strong>In General.</strong> We receive and store any information you enter on our
            website or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify
            you ("personal information"), including your first and last name, telephone number,
                        postal and email addresses, fax number, and billing information (such as credit
                        card number, cardholder name, and expiration date). We may also request information
                        about your hotel room preferences, and frequent flyer and car rental program information.
                        You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information
                        about you is required in order for you to book travel; participate in a survey,
                        contest, or sweepstakes; ask us a question; or initiate other transactions on our
                        site.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Travel Companion Information.</strong> When you make a reservation for someone
                        else through this website, we may request personal information and travel preferences
                        about that individual. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior
                        to providing us with their personal information and travel preferences, as any access
                        to view or change their information will be available only through your account.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Information from Other Sources.</strong> We also may periodically obtain
                        both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliated entities, business
                        partners and other independent third-party sources and add it to our account information.
                        Examples of information we may receive include: updated delivery and address information,
                        purchase history, and demographic information.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Automatic Information.</strong> We automatically collect some information
                        about your computer when you visit this website. For example, we will collect your
                        IP address, Web browser software (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer),
                        and referring website. We also may collect information about your online activity,
                        such as trips viewed and bookings made. Our goals in collecting this automatic information
                        include helping customize your user experience and inhibiting fraud. For more information,
                        please see <a href="#Priv5">Cookies and other technologies</a>.</p>
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            <h2 id="Priv2">
                        How we use your information</h2>
                    <p>
                        We use sensitive billing information (such as cardholder name, credit card number,
                        and expiration date) for the purpose of completing the travel bookings you conduct
                        on our site. We use other information about you for the following general purposes:
                        to provide you with the products and services you request; to provide you with travel
                        confirmation and updates; to manage your booking, including processing bills and
                        providing travel notifications; to communicate with you in general; to respond to
                        your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services,
                        and website; to notify you about special offers and products or services that may
                        be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with this website;
                        to reward you as part of any reward and recognition program you choose to join;
                        to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes,
                        collect fees, or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal
                        activities; to enforce our <a href="terms-of-use">Terms of Use</a>; and as otherwise
                        described to you at the point of collection.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Email Communications.</strong> We want to make it easy for you to take advantage
                        of travel-related opportunities on this website. One way we do this is by sending
                        you email messages that contain information about your apparent travel-related interests.
                        We believe these email messages will provide you with useful information about travel-related
                        special offers available through our site. Please note that you will have the opportunity
                        to choose not to receive these special offer email messages in any such email we
                        send.</p>
                    <p>
                        Please review <a href="#Priv4">Your choices with respect to the collection and use of
                            your information</a> below.</p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv3">
                        With whom we share your information</h2>
                    <p>
                        This website may share your information with the following entities:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li><strong>Suppliers,</strong> such as hotel, airline, car rental, and activity providers,
                            who fulfill yourtravel reservations. Throughout this site, all services provided
                            by a third-party supplier are described as such. We do not share your email address
                            with these suppliers unless they need it to fulfill the travel reservation you have
                            made through this site, and we restrict their use of this information to that purpose.
                            We do not place limitations on our suppliers' use or disclosure of your other personal
                            information. Therefore, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any travel
                            supplier whose products you book through this site. Please note that these suppliers
                            also may contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about you, facilitate
                            your travel reservation, or respond to a review you may submit.</li><li><strong>Third-party</strong>
                                vendors who provide services or functions on our behalf, including credit card processing,
                                business analytics, customer service, marketing, distribution of surveys or sweepstakes
                                programs, and fraud prevention. We may also authorize third-party vendors to collect
                                information on our behalf, including as necessary to operate features of our website
                                or to facilitate the delivery of online advertising tailored to your interests.
                                Third-party vendors have access to and may collect information only as needed to
                                perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for
                                any other purpose. They are also required to follow the same data security practices
                                that we ourselves adhere to.</li><li><strong>Business partners</strong> with whom we
                                    may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be offered
                                    on our website. You can tell when a third party is involved in a product or service
                                    you have requested because their name will appear, either alone or with ours. If
                                    you choose to access these optional services, we may share information about you,
                                    including your personal information, with those partners. Please note that we do
                                    not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners.</li><li><strong>
                                        Affiliates and other referring websites.</strong> An Affiliate is a website not
                                        owned or operated by IAN, but which uses IAN's booking capabilities for processing
                                        travel reservations. The IAN name may or may not appear on the Affiliate website.
                                        You may have accessed IAN via one of our Affiliate websites. If you were referred
                                        to this website from an Affiliate or another site (for example, through a link you
                                        clicked on another site that directed you to this one), we may share some information
                                        about you with that referring website. We have not placed limitations on the Affiliate
                                        or other referring websites' use of your personal information and we encourage you
                                        to review the privacy policies of any website that referred you here.</li><li><strong>
                                            Companies within our corporate family.</strong> We may share your personal information
                                            with our parent company and corporate affiliates, including Hotwire, TripAdvisor,
                                            Expedia and hotels.com. This sharing enables us to provide you with information
                                            about products and services, both travel-related and other, which might interest
                                            you. To the extent that our parent company and corporate affiliates have access
                                            to your information, they will follow practices that are at least as restrictive
                                            as the practices described in this Privacy Policy. They also will comply with applicable
                                            laws governing the transmission of promotional communications and, at a minimum,
                                            give you an opportunity in any commercial email they send to choose not to receive
                                            such email messages in the future.</li></ul>
                    <p>
                        We also may share your information:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>In response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or
                            exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required
                            by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection
                            or right available to us.</li><li>When we believe it is appropriate to investigate,
                                prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect
                                and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company or this website, our customers,
                                or others; and in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements.</li><li>In
                                    connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation,
                                    or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.</li></ul>
                    <p>
                        Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about
                        you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose
                        not to have us share such information.</p>
                    <p>
                        We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including
                        advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of
                        visitors our website receives or the most popular hotels and vacation destinations.
                        This information does not contain any personal information and is used todevelop
                        content and services we hope you will find of interest.
                    </p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv4">
                        Your choices with respect to collection and use of your information</h2>
                    <ul>
                        <li>As discussed above, you can choose not to provide us with any information, although
                            it may be needed to book travel or to take advantage of certain features offered
                            on this site. </li>
                        <li>You may be given the opportunity to subscribe to an email newsletter to receive
                            information about special offers. If you choose to do so, you will also be given
                            the opportunity to unsubscribe from commercial messages in any such email we send.
                            Please note that we reserve the right to send you other communications, including
                            service announcements, administrative messages, and surveys relating to your transactions
                            on this site, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.</li><li>
                                You may have the opportunity on our website to provide a mobile number in order
                                to receive day-of-travel flight alerts. You may discontinue these alerts at any
                                time. </li>
                        <li>The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your
                            browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you
                            receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if
                            you refuse to accept cookies from this site, you will not be able to access portions
                            of our site.</li></ul>
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                    <h2 id="Priv5">
                        Cookies and other technologies</h2>
                    <p>
                        Cookies are small data text files and can be stored on your computer's hard drive
                        (if your Web browser permits). This website uses cookies for the following general
                        purposes:</p>
                    <ul>
                        <li>To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any
                            preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our site. For
                            example, if you register on our site, we may use cookies to remember your registration
                            information, so you do not need to log into our site each time you visit. We also
                            may record your password in a cookie, if you checked the box entitled "Sign me in
                            automatically next time." Please note that member IDs, passwords, and any other
                            account-related data included in such cookies are encrypted for security purposes.
                            Unless you register with us, these cookies will not contain any personal information.</li><li>
                                To help us customize the content and advertisements provided to you on this website
                                and on other sites across the Internet. For example, when you access a page on our
                                website, a cookie is automatically set by us, our service providers, or our partners
                                to recognize your browser as you navigate on the Internet and to present you with
                                information and advertising based on your apparent interests. See <a href="#Priv6">Display
                                    of Advertising/Your Choices</a> for more information about our online advertising
                                practices and your choices.</li><li>To help measure and research the effectiveness of
                                    website features and offerings, advertisements, and email communications (by determining
                                    which emails you open and act upon). </li>
                    </ul>
                    <p>
                        The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your
                        browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you
                        receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if
                        you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to access many of the travel tools
                        offered on our sites.</p>
                    <p>
                        In addition to the above cookies, we use Local Shared Objects, also referred to
                        as "flash cookies," on our web site. These are used to enhance your user experience,
                        for example, by storing your user preferences and settings, such as your volume/mute
                        settings, and in connection with animated content on our website. Local Shared Objects
                        are similar to browser cookies, but can store data more complex than simple text.
                        By themselves, they cannot do anything to or with the data on your computer. Like
                        other cookies, they can only access personally identifiable information that you
                        have provided on this site, and cannot be accessed by other websites. To find out
                        more about flash cookies or how to disable them, please click here: <a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html"
                            target="_blank">http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html</a>.</p>
                    <p>
                        This site may also use Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or Web
                        bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to
                        cookies, that are placed in the code of a Web page. We use Web beacons to monitor
                        the traffic patterns of users from one page within our sites to another, to deliver
                        or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our site from
                        an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, and to improve site
                        performance. We also may allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help
                        us understand which emails have been opened by recipients and to track the visitor
                        traffic and actions on our site. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our
                        content and other offerings.</p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv6">
                        Display of tailored advertising/Your choices</h2>
                    <p>
                        Data collected by this website to serve you with relevant advertising. IAN is committed
                        to providing you with relevant content and information. To do this, we may, through
                        <a href="#Priv5">cookies and other technologies</a>, collect information about your
                        travel-related searches, such as whether you are looking for airline flights or
                        hotels. We use this information, together with other information we have collected
                        about you, to serve you with ads, on our website or elsewhere online, that match
                        your apparent interests. So, for example, if you search for a hotel in Florida on
                        this site, you may see an ad for a Florida travel package on this site or on another
                        website you visit.</p>
                    <p>
                        Please note that we do not combine the information we collect about your travel-related
                        searches on this website with personal information (such as email address) to serve
                        you with ads across other websites. We also do not share your personal information
                        with third parties so they can serve you with advertisements. You can choose not
                        to receive tailored online advertising on other websites, based on your travel-related
                        searches on this website, by clicking <a href="http://www.networkadvertising.org/"
                            target="_blank">here</a>. Note that if you choose not to receive tailored ads,
                        you will still see online advertisements, but they will be more general and less
                        relevant to you.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Data collected by business partners and ad networks to serve you with relevant
                            advertising.</strong> The advertisements you see on this website are served
                        by us or by our service providers. But we also allow third parties to collect information
                        about your online activities through cookies and other technologies. These third
                        parties include (1) business partners, who collect information when you view or
                        interact with one of their advertisements on our sites; and (2) advertising networks,
                        which collect information about your interests when you view or interact with one
                        of the advertisements they place on many different websites on the Internet. The
                        information gathered by these third parties is used to make predictions about your
                        characteristics, interests or preferences and to display advertisements on our sites
                        and across the Internet tailored to your apparent interests. We do not permit these
                        third parties to collect personal information about you (such as email address)
                        on our site, nor do we share with them any personal information about you.</p>
                    <p>
                        Please note that we do not have access to or control over cookies or other technologies
                        these third parties may use to collect information about your interests, and the
                        information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
                        Some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which
                        offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies. To learn
                        more, please <a href="http://www.networkadvertising.org/" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>
                    <p>
                        <strong>Data collected by companies that operate cookie-based exchanges to serve you
                            with relevant advertising.</strong> Like other companies operating online, IAN
                        participates in cookie-based exchanges where anonymous information is collected
                        about your browsing behavior through <a href="#Priv5">cookies and other technologies</a>
                        and segmented into different topics of interest (such as travel). These topics of
                        interest are then shared with third parties, including advertisers and ad networks,
                        so they can tailor advertisements to your apparent interests. We do not share personal
                        information (such as your email address) with these companies and we do not permit
                        these companies to collect any such information about you on our site. Please <a
                            href="http://www.bluekai.com/consumers.php" target="_blank">click here</a> to
                        learn more about cookie-based exchanges, including how to access information about
                        the topics of interest associated with cookies on your computer and how to decline
                        participation in these programs.
                    </p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv7">
                        How we protect your information</h2>
                    <p>
                        We want you to feel confident about using this website to make travel arrangements,
                        and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no website
                        can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical,
                        and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide
                        to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information,
                        and they may only do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption
                        when transmitting your sensitive personal information between your system and ours,
                        and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized
                        persons from gaining access to your information.</p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv8">
                        External links</h2>
                    <p>
                        If any part of this website links you to other sites, those sites do not operate
                        under this Privacy Policy. We recommend you examine the privacy statements posted
                        on those other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and
                        disclosing personal information.</p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv9">
                        Visiting our website from outside the United States</h2>
                    <p>
                        If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, please be aware
                        that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United
                        States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The
                        data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not
                        be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that we take
                        steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you understand
                        that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties
                        with whom we share it as described in this Policy.</p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv10">
                        Changes to this Privacy Policy</h2>
                    <p>
                        We may update this Privacy Policy in the future. If you have registered as a member
                        on our site, we will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by
                        sending a notice to the email address you provided to us or by placing a prominent
                        notice on our website.
                    </p>
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                    <h2 id="Priv11">
                        How you can contact us</h2>
                    <p>
                        If you have questions about either this Privacy Policy (or your travel planning
                        or purchases), please email our customer service agents at customercare@ian.com.</p>
                    <p>
                        This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 7, 2010.</p>
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